From my library: The Hellacopters

The Hellacopters are a fun band to collect. And a grip of their shit is gettin' a bit pricey. None the less, this is still a work in progress. Those familiar with their entire catalog may only consider this a good start. 

And, as I have in the past, I'd would like to thank the great Ollie Stench, for needing money so bad and therefore allowing me to purchase a good portion of the 7" singles listed here....

L.P's:

 

"Supershitty To The Max" -L.P. White Jazz - (JAZZ001LP)  House of Kicks/Psychout Records. Sweden,  Black Vinyl. 1996. I believe this is the 3rd pressing. (M-)

"Supershitty To The Max/Respect The Rock" -L.P. - Man's  Ruin Records, (MR022), 1998? Limited to 1500, Green Vinyl & screen printed cover. (M-)

 "Payin' The Dues" -L.P. White Jazz - (JAZZ004LP) House of Kicks. Sweden, 1997 Purple vinyl, gatefold embossed cover. (VG++)

"Payin' The Dues" -L.P. White Jazz - (JAZZ004LP)House of Kicks. Sweden, 1997 Black vinyl, gate-fold embossed cover. (VG+++)



"Payin' The Dues" -2XL.P. Sub Pop Records - (SP481), U.S.A. 1999 Black Vinyl, gatefold cover. (VG++)

 "High Energy Rock 'N' Roll" 12" E.P. Side 1:"Have Mercy On The Children" 2."Cold Night For Aligators" 3."(I'm) A Stealer" Side2: 1."You Left The Water Running" 2."Like no Other Man" (live) 3."A House Is Not A Motel" - Sweet Nothing Records - (12SN007) U.K. 2001. Black Vinyl. (M-)

"Respect The Rock America" 12" E.P. Split w/Gluecifer -
Side 1: (Hellacopters) 1."American Ruse" 2."Workin' For MCA" 3."A Man And A Half 4."Her Strut" 5."Doggone Your Bad Luck Soul" Side 2. (Gluecifer) 6."Gary O'Kane" 7."Shitty City" 8."My Card Says Typhoon Killer" 9."No Goddamn Phones"10."Going Down" - Man's Ruin, (MR117). U.S.A. 2000? *also UNOFFICIAL?* (VG++)

"Grande Rock" - L.P. Psychout/White Jazz Records - (JAZZ16LP/PSYCH005), House of Kicks, Sweden, 1999. Black Vinyl. Really cool cover of "Angel Dust" by Venom. (VG+)

 "Grande Rock" - L.P. Sub Pop/Psychout Records - (SP 475/Pshych005), U.S.A. 1999. Black Vinyl. (M-)

"High Visibility" - 2XL.P. Universal Music Sweden , Psychout/Sweet Nothing, (SNLP006), Sweden, 2000. Black Vinyl with etching on side 4, gatefold cover. (VG++)



 "High Visibility" - L.P. Gearhead/Universal, Psychout/Polar/Led, - (RMP033) U.S.A. 2000. Black Vinyl. (M-)

"Cream of the Crap- Collected Non-Album Works Volume 1" 2XL.P. Gearhead/Universal, Polar/Psychout, - (RPM034) 2002, U.S.A. Black vinyl, gate-fold cover with poster. (VG+)

 "By The Grace Of God" - L.P. (Black Cover) Polar/Universal, LED/Pshychout, -(064 998-1) E.U. 2002. Black vinyl with faint streaks of red. Released in three different color variations: Red, White, & Black. (VG+)







"Search & Destroy" - (Live Bootleg) Recorded live at Maida Vale, April 9, 2003. Black vinyl, sound quality is good to very good. (M-)






"Rock And Roll Is Dead"-  L.P. - Wild Kingdom/Universal, Psychout, (KINGLP033), Sweden, 2005. Cream white vinyl. (VG++)

"Rock And Roll Is Dead" 12"-  Pic. Disc - Sacred Heart Recordings (SHR666LP) (under liscense from Liqour And Poker/Psychout Society/Universal) 2006. (M-)




"I'm In The Band" 12" E.P. Wild Kindom Records - (KING046P) 2006. 2 song Pizza Pic. disc comes in Pizza Box with embroidered logo patch.(Cover/box VG+), (record M-)

10" E.P.'s

 

 

 "Doggone Youre Bad Luck Soul" 10" E.P. Man's Ruin Records - (MR155), U.S.A. 1999? Green vinyl, (Green) screen printed cover. 1 of 3 varients. (M-)

 "Move Right Out Of Here" - 10" E.P. - White Jazz Records- (JAZZ023), Psychout/House of Kicks, Sweden, 1999. Black vinyl *3 bonus songs not on CD. (VG+)

"Move Right Out of Here" C.D. single. 2 tracks - White Jazz/Psychout (JAZZ023CD) 1999. (VG+)

 "White Trash Soul" E.P. - Split w/The Flaming Sideburns - Side 1. (The Hellacopters) 1."Whole Lot Of Shakin' In My Heart (Since I Met You)" (Smokey Robinson) 2."Get Ready" (Smokey Robinson) 3."Underground Confusion" (Flaming Sideburns) Side 2. (Flaming Sideburns) 1."Emotional Son" 2."Shake-In" 3."Psyched Out And Furious" (Hellacopters) Bad Afro Records - (FRO-1003) Denmark, 2000. (VG+)

7" E.P.'s 

 

 "Killing Alan" b/w "Ferrytale" & "The Creeps" - Psychout Records, Sweden - 1995. Red vinyl re-issue. (VG+)

"1995" b/w "Tilt City" & "Freespeedin'" - Get Hip Records - (GH-201) U.S.A. 1997. (Re-issue of Freak Scene, Freak-3.) (M-)

 "Looking at Me" b/w "Rock Hammer" - Estrus Records- (ES71322) 1997. (M-)

"Soulseller" b/w "Aint Nothin' To Do" - White Jazz (7JAZZ008) Sweden 1997.

"Hey" b/w "Her Strut" - White Jazz (7JAZZ010) Sweden, 1998. Orange vinyl w/ red streaks. (VG++)

 Scott Morgan 7 The Hellacopters - "Slow Down Take A Look" b/w "1G With a Bullet" Sub Pop Records - (SP483) U.S.A. 1999. (VG++)

 "Right Down Blue" b/w Thanks For Nothing" - Sub Pop Records - (SP464) U.S.A. 1998. *Artwork by Peter Bagge* (M-)

"Dirty Women" b/w "I Only Got The Shakes" - Bang! Records - (BANG!4) Basque, 1998. Blue Vinyl. (M-)

 "The Devil Stole The Beat From The Lord" b/w "Holiday Cramps" & "Be Not Content" 7" pic. disc. Sub Pop/Psychout - (SP477) 1999. (M-)

Split w/New Bomb Turks 'Lowered Pentangles (Anything at All)" (Hellacopters) b/w "All The Right Places" (New Bomb Turks) - Anyway Records - (aw049) U.S.A. 1999. (VG++)

"Twist Action in New York City" e.p. "Twist Action" b/w "Fake Baby" - Fandango Records - (FR-015) U.S.A. 1999. Black vinyl -  500 pressed. 100 on white, the rest on black. (M-)

"Split w/The Nitwitz - "Times Are Low" (Hellacopters) b/w "Jackass" (Nitwitz) Rocket Dog Records - (RD-07001) Netherlands, 1998. Black Vinyl. (M-)

"The Devil Stole The Beat From The Lord" b/w "Holiday Cramps" & "Be Not Content", White Jazz Records/Psychout  - (7 JAZZ021) Sweden 1999. Black vinyl. (M-)

 "QuadraCopters & HellJets" Split e.p. "Think it Over" by the QuadraCopters b/w "I Wasn't Born Yesterday" by the HellaJets. Estrus Records - (ES7144) U.S.A. 1999. Mixing members of The Hellacopters and The Quadrojets. Black Vinyl. (M-)

"Like No Other Man" b/w "Gimmie Shelter" 7" pic. disc, Flapping Jet Records/Psychout, - (FJ007) Sweden, 1999. (M-)

 "Check This Action" Split w/ The Powdermokeys - "A House is not a Motel" (Hellacopters) b/w "Destination X" (Powdermonkeys) - Butcher's Hook Records - (HOOK 004) England, 1999. Red Vinyl. (M-) Autographed by 1 member of Powdermonkeys.

 "Strikes Like Lightning" 3X7" Box set. Rec.#1:(Black Vinyl) "Turn the Wrong Key" b/w "Take Me On", Rec.#2:(Red Vinyl) "A View From Nowhere" b/w "Blinded By The Light" Rec.#3:(White Vinyl) "Fiends % Frankensteins" b/w "On The Line" - Sweet Nothing/Psychout Records - (SNLP040) Czech. 2004. Box w/ 3 7" singles (Red, Blk, & Wht. Vinyl), Logo pin, Cloud/Lightning Bolt penant, & 5 High Gloss Trading Cards. (VG+++)

Just gearin' up to get back into the swing of things. I've been away for a while, lotsa really heavy shit has once again confirmed that life can be tricky and at times, fucking brutal. Thank the maker for those zen-like days of sifting through the recent arrival bins at your local vinyl-mart. Plenty to share, no so much time to do it. But I'll be back into occupying my mind with chattin' about new gems discovered, and acquired soon.

Cheers. And happy hunting!

                                           -Moth

Some pics of an old Decca Hi - Fi I've been working on. The cartridge and stylus is pretty interesting. It's got two needles. One for 45's and L.P.'s, the other for old 78's that required a much thicker needle. A switch at the tip of the tone arm rotates the housing that the needles are mounted on for access to either one.       

Record Store Day approaches...

And I'm really gonna have to start conserving my leisure spending if I want to be a part of it. However, I have been able to make a couple trips out to the racks recently which yielded both new and old awesomeness.

First off,... no, first, OFF!
The boxed set of their first four 7" E.P.'s. Easily my pick for best new band 2010. Featuring Keith Morris (Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Buglite) Steve Shane McDonald (Red Kross), Mario Rubalcaba (Rocket From The Crypt), and Demitri Coats of Burning Brides.
I have been following the band since the release of their first 7", but never got my shit together to order any of them as they came out. A side effect of living in a city with a comfortable number of good record shops.

And that's where I found the boxed set, a block and a half away from my apartment. And at a mere $20.99, it's the best twenty bux I've spent in a long time.

Each 7" has cover art by Raymond Pettibon, best known for all the art he's done throughout the years for Black Flag and other SST releases. And with a download code, I've been spreading this shit around like syphilis. ("hey man, you gotta hear this!")  

They've got some video's on Youtube and from the looks of it, this show is gonna be a blast when they come here April 3rd. My buddy Paul summed up the way I feel about watching them in action, "Anytime I see someone ripping shit up on stage who's older than me, I take heart. That's more purely inspiring than most things actually."



I have new hope for the future. With most new punk bands making me wish I would have died young with fond memories, here come the old pro's to remind everyone how it's done. With more energy in one 50 second song than the entire last five years worth of what passes for "Punk Rock" now.

Moving on, I've finally obtained a very clean, original copy of "High Time" by the MC5. My love for this band grows deeper with every passing year. This seems to be the band I study the most lately. And to be perfectly honest, I've never really spent a lot of time listening to this one purely due to the fact that I never owned it.

And I fucking love it.

Pure and simple. I fully expect to wear this copy out. But considering how long it took me to find one this good, I may just by a nice 180 gram re-issue before I start burning through needles on this. Well worth the wait. And the $30.00.

In recent months, I've been kickin around bins for 60's garage punk and freakbeat stuff. An area I'm relatively new, but none the less increasingly attracted to.
My latest instalment is Beatrocket Records 1998 re-issue of "Intruducing The Sonics: Featuring The Witch And Psycho" (BR 114)

I'm quickly becoming consumed with this "new to me" 40+ year old genre, and am looking forward to my new subject in "Rock and Roll Home-Schooling".

Finally, I purchased Motorhead's latest, "The World Is Yours". What's most impressive about Motorhead, is not only are they legends who have been responsible for so many classic moments of Rock and Roll, not only is Lemmy a God, and just as old as one, not only are they STILL one of, if not the loudest and blistering live acts, (proven to me yet again last month) but they have continued to produce new material on a consistently regular basis.

And it seems to me that they have a trend of every three or so albums, they bring one that is filled with new classic songs. Not to say the the material that connects them is inferior, but "The World is Yours" has moments I haven't heard since "Sacrifice, then "Over Night Sensation", then, "We Are Motorhead", etc.

And this has been one of those moments. It's Motorhead, pure and simple. and it's damn good.

I'm out.
Cheers!

Husker Du or don't...

Okay, after the last post I did about my Husker Du collection, more and more questions came about and I can not help these people, I AM ONE OF THEM!

FIRST, I thought I had thee shit with my "Black Flag" bug sprayer, like a proper old-school poison containing bug killing Black Flag sprayer! Sweet! Then, that big assed autographed Joan Jett framed poster shows up in my dumpster... what the..
fuck man, really?! These are all really good scores, but then this Husker Du record walked into my life.
How do I react?
 like the time I found a MONO press of "Strange Days" at CHEAPO for like $5.60. A MONO COPY! Brown label...!  (I hope someone got fired for that.)

 For those of you not up yo pace.. I got a copy of"METAL CIRCUS" by Husker Du, and, for some reason, side 2 plays side 4 of "ZEN ARCADE"!!!  Who would do this?
especially to me!
At the time of purchase, the sticker on the poly said "The Infamous mispress, plays side 4 of Zen Arcade" INFAMOUS implies that there is more information out there, so where is it! I would like to sign up for this information,
I can not find one shred of information about this fuck-up.

Help me please! Just a link, anything,..      

Now I need HELP! Just type Husker Du in the subject line of mikeqp666@yahoo.com
Or, you can comment on it here on the post for us all to learn something.... bring it!
Explanation please.

husker du or don't

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Bobby Roberts January 27 at 8:19pm Report

Mike, hello and top greetings, we discussed that husker du and none of us are sure, so we are going to ask some other contacts and get back to you on that either way, best wishes and thanks again

Mike Robertson January 27 at 8:34pm

Awesome! Thanks a lot!
-M

Husker Du - Just a drop in the bucket...

Probably my favorite local band of all time, there's not a lot I could write about this band that already hasn't been heavily documented. In fact, I'm just beginning the book by Andrew Earles.

But my own collection isn't too shabby. I just really wish I had more flyers... and being from Minneapolis hasn't made that any easier.

-The earliest piece of vinyl I have is the "Amusement" b/w "Statues" 7" on Reflex Records from 1980. Reflex was odd in the sense that it cataloged it's releases by letter, therefore their first 7" was aptly cataloged as Reflex "A".

I always thought this was strange because after "Z", where do you go? "AA" and so on? Could it be that the band could clearly see their end? I suppose depending on who you ask, that could be the case.

-"Everything Falls Apart" (Reflex "D") 1982  12" on 45 RPM. Fucking brilliant e.p. if you ask me. Absolutely essential.

I've always been curious about the matrix lettering on this. Besides the words "Barefoot And Pregnant" appearing in the inscription, unless you go by the track listing, side one and side two aren't specified on the label OR the matrix inscription. Instead, one side has a black label, the other blue. On the record, where the matrix number would normally appear, it says "Refelx Black" & "Reflex Blue" respectively.

I've got two copies of this. One of which, I cant bare to remove from the shrink wrap.
I know.

-The next album, "Land Speed Record" is the same case. I just can't bring myself to open it, since it's a copy on "New Alliance" from 1981 (NAR-007)
This album was my introduction to Husker Du. And I still think of the fact that this was recorded in a room that I spend so much of my time in, The 7th St. Entry.

The first pressings of this came with an insert with tour dates and was a run of 6000. The second press had an insert but no tour dates and the covers are on a heavier stock for the first two pressings than the third and fourth, which state "Marketed by SST records" on the back cover.

Re-issues on SST have changed a bit over the years and eventually anything that said New Alliance was removed. With the addition of a U.P.C. barcode. The stock is of a lighter weight and is white on the inside.

It was also released in the U.K. by Alternative Tentacles in the early '80's.

 -"Eight Miles High" b/w "Masochism World" 7"  Released in 1984 and was apparently out of print until about '90 when it was re-issued on different colors. (vinyl) It was also re-issued as a 10" together with the " Makes No Sense At All" 7" in the '90's.

-I have an early press of Zen Arcade. (No barcode, extra heavy card stock) (SST # 027) 1984. This double record is insane awesome. It's gotta be up there with some of the finest material the band has ever done.

 It can be hard to date some of Husker Du's records since the packaging hasn't really changed all that much. And that seems to be the case for a lot of SST releases. You really have to know what you're looking for when you're dating them. The card-stock can be different, even the construction of the cover itself can all come into play. And even the matrix numbers aren't always be helpful. (see "Everything Falls Apart")

From what I've read about SST pressings, is when it comes to re-issues, they didn't really keep that great of tabs on how many were made. It seems they would do a random colored vinyl press of 1,000, and when they sold out or got low on them, they would press 1,000 more on a different color.
I believe all of these copies were ones that carried a U.P.C. code on the back cover.
That can be a "tell", at least to some extent. Earlier copies didn't have a U.P.C. on the back.

-"Metal Circus" SST Records (sst 020) 12" 45 RPM. No Barcode.

 *** I have another copy of Metal Circus that's a mis-press and plays side 4 of "Zen Arcade." Does ANYBODY  have any more information about this record!? It even shares the same etching in the run-off section.
 I bought it at a local record fair from a guy who said his brother used to work at Northern Lights back in the day. He did have some cool shit. Including the only Ramones album I've ever seen signed by the entire band. A copy of "Leave Home" (with Tommy!!!)
I've looked for info about this but have found nothing. Not even the insanely thorough "Husker Du Database" was able to yield me any info.

-"New Day Rising" (SST # 031) 1985 was for the longest time, my absolute favorite release from this band. (I've since held that opinion about most of the catalog). I have two copies of this L.P., the first press and a re-issue on blue vinyl.

-"Makes No Sense At All" b/w  "Love is All Around" 7" (SST # 051) 1985 Orig. press.

-"Flip Your Wig" L.P. (SST 055) 1985. Early copy, no u.p.c.

-"Candy Apple Grey" L.P. (Warner Bros. # 25385-1) 1986. Their first release for Warner Bros.
-I've yet another sealed Husker's release and it's a 12" single of "Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely", a single from Candy Apple Grey.

-4 song 7" compilation that was a freebie with N.M.E and features 1 song from Husker Du, a version of "Ticket To Ride" by the Beatles. It's interesting...

-"Warehouse: Songs And Stories" 2XL.P. w/ a promo sticker and stamp.

"Warehouse" is another of my favorites, this one showcasing their latter years.

-And finally, I have a promotional double L.P. called "The Warehouse Interview". It's got song clips and interviews about the album. I've came across this a few times and have upgraded my copy twice now.

To date, this is my entire Husker Du collection. There's plenty of singles, and more out there. The rarest, are probably the cassette compilations put out by Reflex back in the day of bands from the local scene. Any leeds....?